What are the symptoms of congenital absence of vagina?

The biggest and most important difference between men and women is the difference in genitals, which we all know, but in life there are many girls who are troubled by congenital absence of vagina, and parents are often worried and at a loss. Experts point out: If a child is found to have congenital absence of vagina, he should go to a professional hospital for examination as soon as possible to seek treatment.

What are the symptoms of congenital absence of vagina?

This disease is characterized by normal female chromosome karyotype, normal systemic growth and development of female secondary sexual characteristics, normal vulva, absent vagina, developed uterus (only remnants of the two horns), small fallopian tubes, and normal ovarian development and function.

Patients with Rokitansky-Kustner-Hauser syndrome, which is often characterized by testicular feminization, are the most common. Patients with testicular feminization (androgen insensitivity syndrome) are relatively rare. Very few patients have true hermaphroditism or gonadal dysgenesis.

The vast majority of patients with congenital absence of vagina only have completely closed vaginal vestibule mucosa at the normal vaginal opening, with no traces of vagina.

Some patients also have a shallow depression in the vestibule of the vagina, and some have a blind vagina shorter than 3 cm. Often accompanied by no deformity, only slightly thickened strips of tissue can be seen in the normal uterus, located in the middle of the broad ligament.

About 1/10 of patients may have partial uterine development and functional endometrium. After puberty, due to menstrual blood retention, they experience periodic abdominal pain, amenorrhea, or the disease is discovered only after marriage when they seek medical attention due to difficulty in sexual intercourse.

The diagnosis of congenital absence of vagina is actually very easy. It will be very clear as long as we check the child's genitals, because the vagina is the most obvious and important reproductive organ of women. Therefore, parents should make every effort to treat their children so that their children can have a healthy reproductive system.